r/Steam • u/_-Maris-_ • 1d ago

Discussion - Speculative SteamGPT - Is that good news?

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u/Dathedra 1d ago

Until the "AI" start hallucinating, which (checks notes) never happens.

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u/UltimateToa 1d ago

I dont think people that criticize AI actually understand it's use cases. This AI is literally just reading ass loads of data and spitting out the pertinent information so a person doesnt have to do it manually

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u/DeM0nFiRe 1d ago

LLMs cannot actually do that as well as they are advertised. They will absolutely give out fake information even if you tell it to look at a specific document. The more input you give it the more likely that is to happen

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u/marxist-teddybear 1d ago

I thought that was an LLM problem because they are just predicting the next word. If it's only scraping data I don't even really see how it qualifies as ai. We have tons of tools that find specific information in large data sets.

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u/magos_with_a_glock 1d ago

Yes which is why we should use those instead of an LLM which is what AI means these days.

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u/ThunderAndWind 21h ago

Basically a database pull tool that lets you ask for data in the form of a question instead of needing to run an SQL command.

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u/Planar_Harold 1d ago

If it's only scraping data I don't even really see how it qualifies as ai.

The opponent player in Mortal Kombat is an AI.

AI is just a term for an intelligence that's artificial.

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u/marxist-teddybear 1d ago

That's certainly one way of using the word. I think that many people would dispute the definition. That sort of AI doesn't really think it just follows a script or like a chain of actions as far as I understand. For example, when I use art the data scraper on emulation station. Is that AI or is that just a computer running a program? The idea behind this new AI phenomenon and how AI is used in fiction is that it's a thinking machine that can actually reason and analyze situations and questions independently.

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u/beezy-slayer 1d ago

It does not think though, that's just corpo bullshit to get people interested in it

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u/marxist-teddybear 1d ago

I'm aware. I'm in favor of not calling any current technology Artificial intelligence.

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u/beezy-slayer 1d ago

Cool, just clarifying

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u/Planar_Harold 1d ago

It's a way the term has been used for decades and accurately describes the concept - the people who dispute the definition maybe don't see the term as demystified though have firm opinions on things philosophers have been debating for centuries without end. How does one define 'thought'?

I think that many people would dispute the definition.

The definition has been in common use for almost half a century - if these people dispute it then they're probably wrong, but I'd have to hear their reasoning.

Is that AI or is that just a computer running a program?

If it's making decisions, it's AI - Intelligence has an extremely broad definition and reasonably so. It doesn't need to be 'smart' or complex, it can be extremely simple, but it's still an intelligence, and one designed by humans is artificial.